Waking Night Support Worker - Halesowen

We are looking to recruit up to 2 new team member to complete our staff team. We support 3 young people aged 14,15 and 16 who present a variety of complex needs with varying severities.

Salary: £8.30-£9.15 (dependent of experience/qualifications)

Do you have the empathy, compassion, resilience and positive parenting skills required to help support young people to live independent lives?

Here, you’ll join a strong, supportive team in helping young people with complex needs. It’s challenging yet highly rewarding work where the little things you do every day will have life-changing results.

You must be over 21 years of age and hold a full UK driving licence.

Located in Halesowen the site is a very large home that can house up to 5 young people. The house is spacious and team believes it has a family and homely feel.

This is one of our larger Cambian homes and has very good public transport links to and from both Halesowen centre and also Birmingham town centre.

Types of dutiesThese can be varied but are all centered on the young person and can include:

- Providing encouragement when getting ready for school- Transportation (Use of Company Car)- Care Planning- Meal Planning- Organising and facilitating social activities (outside of school)- Maintaining the home (cleaning, laundry and shopping etc.)- Home management- Liaising with external stakeholders and our own multi-disciplinary team- Liaising with Young people’s parents and social workers in regards to health and wellbeing.

The day can be very unpredictable and quite easily you could spend the entire afternoon providing 1:1 support managing extremely challenging behaviour, the right type of person needs to be flexible, adaptable and able to read situations and help our young people make positive choices.

Shift pattern You will be expected to work 30 hours a week for 3 nights a week starting from 10:30pm – 08:30am. There is some flexibility of working and our manager knows how important a good work life balance is for her team. You must be available 7 days a week as your days of work could change from time to time.

You will need the following skills/qualifications:

- A passion for working with children- Excellent communication skills and a good team player- Engaging- Strong determination to succeed- Effective leadership and Management- A willingness to learn

You will be expected to have a level 3 diploma in Health & Social care or committed to passing this once you have completed your probationary period.

Who are we?We are the Cambian group, the largest independent provider of care and education for children and young people. We believe that everyone has a personal best. Those we care for and those who care for them. You’ll find that you’re part of a close, supportive team, all focused on achieving the best outcome for everyone. The better we work together, the more we can help the people we care for achieve their personal best too.

Whether that’s in terms of helping someone to achieve their personal potential or growing our reputation as provider of the best quality behavioural health services in the UK. We already have 27 Ofsted ‘Outstanding Provider’ Awards, join us and together we can achieve more.

Requirements for DBS and reference checking will be undertaken in line with government regulations and safer recruitment best practice.

Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible due to the nature of these important checks it may extend the processing time.